I’ve got no accounting savvy to speak of; I was just keeping track of all my finances through spreadsheets, which was going alright, but I thought it was time to try and unify and organize my efforts. As the incumbent standard, I chose Quicken 2011. And, in fact, it’s got some bugs right out of the box. You have to install the patches (which you can do thru the periodic product updates) to get rid of the bugs.

Didn’t work, I suspect because Quicken did something in the Windows Registry to disallow the downloaded transactions even under Q2008. So I had to restore my entire computer installation (my entire Disk C) to the last Acronis backup I did a month ago, then tried again with the restored Q2008; this time it worked like it used to. But if you have 3+ years of financial records in excel you wanted to import into Quicken you will have to find tools to convert CSV or excel data into QIF format. To do so, you need to Google for some random 3rd party tool that you think you might be able to trust.

I could understand if the banks changed their formats of file protocols and Quicken didn’t create a patch for older software to accommodate, which is just regular changes that happen! But to take a perfectly good working software and cut off features to make it uncomfortable to not upgrade seems sort of like a scam to make $! I’ve also found that GNU Cash did a good job with allowing me to make custom graphs although the user interface was rather cumbersome. By contrast, Quicken seems to have a few pre-set graphs and nothing else is available.

I upgraded from Quicken Home & Business 2010 to 2011. All 3 of my existing saved cash flow reports were corrupted in the upgrade process.

The error message actually directed me to Intuit’s website (via an embedded link) to insure that my financial institution was supported. It had a search box and link driven letters to hop right to your institution. I wish I’d done it years sooner. Since at least 2002, Intuit has been using Quicken as a pure ‚cash cow‘ – a product to milk revenue out of, but making no investment in it – while it continues to toy around with other new product developments toward future revenue streams. The agent told me the following: 1. You should not trust the communication with your bank.

It will save it under that day’s date or just as a file. I did not like however, the way Quicken 8 made you update to next version. The reports seem a complicated, the menu seems to just be rearranged, seems to be very difficult to find what you’re looking for without going to help. I really hope quicken works on some new features soon, till then I’ll keep upgrading every three years. I’d love to know why this product even exists. And I’d really love to hear about a viable alternative. I am not happy with this version. I sent an email and the response I got from them was incorrect. I bought the 2011 version which no longer works with Bank of America. It did work for a few days then Bank of America threw the switch and now says they do not support it.

It has an easy to use interface. ceramic dog bowls.